FATAL WRECK IN A TUNNEL.; Freight Trains Collide in Philadelphia -- Towerman Admits He Was Asleep.

PHILADELPHIA, May 12 -- Through the negligence of a towerman, who lay asleep at his post, a disastrous and fatal freight train wreck occurred here at midnight last night in a tunnel of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. An engineer and fireman were killed, and five unknown tramps are supposed to be dead in the wreck. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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